Re: Bank notes : Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:04 pm  

I think that all the time we have a woman on every bank note, it's only fair that the rest of the pictures are of men. For equality, an' all that.

Re: Bank notes : Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:50 pm  

Be good if they stick a topless page 3 girl with an advert for The Sun on! Two fingers to feminism!

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:28 am  

Dally wrote:

Be good if they stick a topless page 3 girl with an advert for The Sun on! Two fingers to feminism!

Would you actually want to handle such notes? Just imagine whose hands they will have been pawed by ... uuurgh.

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:37 am  

carl_spackler wrote:

I still just don't understand why ...

I entirely agree. Personally, I think that obsessions about such things are indicative of a lack of more serious political analysis and the desire to pick on 'easy' things.

carl_spackler wrote:

... If there was a campaign for an individual person whom people thought worthy I'd see much more value in it ...

There has been such a campaign in the last year or so – and I signed the petition for it. That was Alan Turing, as it happened.

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:38 am  

Dally wrote:

... Two fingers to feminism!

Or to a specific variety of feminism.

There is no 'one' feminism.

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:43 am  

Dally wrote:

Be good if they stick a topless page 3 girl with an advert for The Sun on! Two fingers to feminism!

Thatcher would have loved that.

I'd put Stephen Fry on one, Dally wouldn't put one in his trousers again.

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:46 am  

Sheldon wrote:

Thatcher would have loved that.

I'd put Stephen Fry on one, Dally wouldn't put one in his trousers again.

Oh he would, but when no-one was looking.

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:32 am  

I wouldn't be able to stomach a nice long line of coke if I had to see Thatchers ugly sneering mug as I rolled the note up.
Perish the thought!

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:57 am  

WIZEB wrote:

I wouldn't be able to stomach a nice long line of coke if I had to see Thatchers ugly sneering mug as I rolled the note up.
Perish the thought!

You bankers are all the same!

Re: Bank notes : Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:06 am  

Do people have to be dead to get on notes?
Tim Berners-Lee would have to pop up at some time, he's changed the world as we know it.

As for feminist women a great shout is Emily Pankhurst and if the Scots get independence a suggestion would be Flora MacDonald.